Dream family home up for auction after cyclone wrecks a five-year renovation

The five-bedroom house at 101 Machan St, Machans Beach, is going to auction on Saturday after its renovation work was wrecked by Cyclone Jasper. What was once a father’s dream family home has been placed up to auction after Cyclone Jasper wrecked a five-year renovation. Owner Joshua Rhodes said he was finally parting ways with his house at 101 Machan St, Machans Beach, which was originally designed and built by his late father. The tradie decided to renovate the five-bedroom home in 2019, and took the four-hour trip from his home in Bloomfield once a month to get the work done. The home was built in the 1980s by owner Joshua Rhodes’ father, who passed away two decades ago. Mr Rhodes decided to work on fixing up the property, travelling four hours down to Cairns once a month to do the renovation. “It’s been in our family for 48 years,” Mr Rhodes said. “As time went, my dad slowly built the house … it took him 15 years of saving money and doing different parts of the house as he could afford it. “The house has a lot of fond memories, because when my dad was alive, he was Santa Claus, and me and my sister were the helpers … every Christmas we would dress up, and we would do the Machan...